100 FORTY—NIN'I`H CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 575. 1886. June 30, ISSG. CHAP. 575.-An act making an appropriation for the Department of Agriculture for ————-m- the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and forother , PIIYPOBCS. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Aifricultural De- States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and l‘“}f';“°“‘ “1’P“’· they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury of Pm `°"S° the United States not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eightyseven, for the purposes and objects hereinafter expressed, namely: i DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER. _Saiaries: Com- For compensation of Commissioner of Agriculture, four thousand tive “;‘$*‘°“°’· °]°'k*·· hundred dollars; chief clerk in said Department, who shall be superin- ° °’ tendent of the Department buildings, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief of division of accounts and disbursing officer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant disbursing officer, who shall act as property clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk to disbnrsing officer, one thousand dollars; one stenographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one engraver, two thousand dollars; two clerks of class four, three thousand six hundred dollars; two clerks of class three, three thousand two hundred dollars; four clerks of class two, tive thousand six hundred dollars; seven clerks of class one, eight thousand four hundred dollars; eight clerks, at one thousand dollars each; six clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one librarian, one thousand four hundred dollars; one engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; two firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; superintendent of folding-room, one thousand two hundred dollars; two assistants in folding-room, at six hundred dollars each; messengers, carpenters, watchmen, and laborers, ten thousand dollars; one assistant fireman, at five hundred dollars; in all, sixtyfive thousand nine hundred · and eighty dollars. Botanical Divis- BOTANICAL DIVISION. l¢)ll. Botanist, assist- For compensation of botanist, two thousand dollars; for one assistwut- _ _ unt botanist, one thousand two lmndred dollars; for investigating the 1""°‘“i¥"*‘°“*· nature of the diseases of fruits and iruit-trees, grains, and other useful plants due to parasitic fungi, and for experiments necessary to determine suitable remedies for these diseases, and for field investigation in the South and West with respect to the discovery and introduction into cultivation of forage plants and grasses suitable to increase the grazing capacity of the arid districts of the South and \Vest, five thousand dollars; in all, eight thousand two hundred dollars. l Poinological Di- POMOLOGICAL DIVISION. Yislllll. 1‘t»m¤i¤;;is:,ei¤. 1* or compensation of pomologist, two thousand dollars; and for the collection and dissemination of pomological information, three thousand A dollars; in all, five thousand dollars. Microsc o p i c al MICROSCOPICAL DIVISION. Division. sriereseepamas- For compensation of microscopist, two thousand dollars; one assistsistant. mit inicroscopist, ODE thousand dollars; for microscopical apparatus, Investigations- chemicals, and purchase of food samples and fibers in making necessary investigations and examinations into the adulteration of food, one thousand dollars; in all, four thousand dollars. ·
